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Windows 7: Why Is My Wifi So Slow? Please Read

So just over 2 years ago, me and my family decided to go from mobile broadband to homephone and a router. All is well and i havnt really been bothered to make it faster, so today i set off and do a speedtest at speedtest.net, it comes out with..

ping - 49ms
download - 6.67mbps
upload - 0.38mbps

I find this quite good, specialy the download speed.thing is when i go to download something from lets say mediafire, i am lucky to get 800kbps,and the same when i download stuff with utorrent - i am lucky to get over 800kbps, it normaly hovers around 670kbps

I dont want to break records i just want my internet speeds to increase a bit, in the real world, not on a speed test.

Mediafire and other download sites suffer of user saturation issues, and torrents suffer of leechers who limit their upload bandwidth to minimum, try a public torrent like Ubuntu or OpenOffice and see if you get the same speeds, also, read the utorrent configuration guide carefully, see if your upload speed is set correctly.

... i am lucky to get 800kbps,and the same when i download stuff with utorrent - i am lucky to get over 800kbps, it normaly hovers around 670kbps

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You are now confusing two different things, line speed and download speed because of the different measurement units used in those. If your line speed is about 6.5 Mbps, then your download speed would be exactly what you get, a bit more than 800 KBps.

This is because the two things are told using different units, megabits per second (Mbps) and kilobytes per second (KBps). Your download speed 6.67 Mbps = 6830.08 kbps or 6.67 * 1024 = 853.76 KBps or 6830.08/8.

Conclusion: If your line speed you are paying for would be that 6.67 Mbps you told you get, then your theoretical maximum download speed would be 6.67 * 1024 = 6830.08 kilobits per second (kbps). One byte = 8 bits, so to get download speed in kilobytes we need to divide kilobits with 8:
6830.08 / 8 = 853.76 kilobytes per second (KBps).

In other words, your download speed is as fast as you line speed indicates. No issues there.

Formula: Multiply line speed in Mbps with 1024, divide this with 8, or Mbps * 1024 / 8 = KBps.

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